Get a grip on project costs with calculation in installation technology

If you are active in installation technology, construction, or civil engineering/infrastructure, you are familiar with the tight margins in these sectors. To ensure that your projects remain profitable, monitoring them accurately, identifying risks on time, and working as efficiently as possible are crucial. With projects’ increasing complexity, this is a challenge. We explain how estimating software can help you better control costs.

Why calculation is the basis for success in installation technology, civil engineering, and construction

Ignoring proper calculation can lead to missing savings, budget overruns, and project delays. This can result in payment delays with investors and damage to your reputation. By optimizing your calculation process, you avoid unnecessary costs and ensure a stable project progression. Start each project with clear priorities and ensure your planners have enough time to create accurate cost estimates.

The advantages of software in calculation

Calculation software offers numerous advantages over traditional methods such as Excel files. For example, the software allows you to easily reuse bills of materials or quantities from previous projects, considerably speeding up the process.

Using the correct assembly time is crucial to making a reasonable calculation. If the installation time is longer than previously estimated, this will negatively impact your installation company’s hourly rate. Bluace’s service and maintenance software offers a Field Service App that allows technicians to indicate precisely when to start and stop assembly. This gives you a reliable, up-to-date installation time estimate and will enable you to work with correct assembly times.

In addition, working with up-to-date item prices is essential to ensure you can pass on low prices and, therefore, miss out on income. A link with 2BA and the service and maintenance software ensures you have an up-to-date price list when calculating. This price list is automatically updated, so you don’t have to spend time updating it manually.

More than just cost savings

Accurate calculations not only contribute to cost savings but also to the success and growth of your business. Good calculations help in better planning of future projects and the preparation of competitive quotes. Delivering projects on or under budget increases your chances of winning contracts and improves your reputation as a contractor or installer.